Travelling with Epilepsy – Practical Advice and Tips
The latest in this travel health series helping people travel with chronic health problems. This time we're looking at how you can still travel with Epilepsy.
The latest in this travel health series helping people travel with chronic health problems. This time we're looking at how you can still travel with Epilepsy.
The travel blues - what are they, why do we get them and how can we avoid them and instead, have the trip of a lifetime?!
Travelling with Back Pain is a common problem and can have a huge impact on how you enjoy your trip. Having experienced back problems myself, I decided to use my medical expertise as a general practitioner doctor to bring you 30 tips for travelling with a bad back. You CAN still travel and you SHOULD!
Travelling with Chronic Health Problems - a new Travel Health Series I'm so excited to introduce to you my new travel health series. In each article, we will be talking about travelling with a chronic illness such as this post about what it's like travelling with diabetes. You may have gathered…
Malaria. We've all heard about it. We all know it can make you really sick. So why are people still travelling without anti malaria tablets? Should you take the risk of travelling without your malaria prophylaxis? Absolutely NOT. Malaria is no laughing business. It's serious. It can kill you. Prevention is…
[su_heading size="23" margin="110"]10 hugely moving stories from truly inspirational people with serious health problems who won't let it stop them[/su_heading] Browsing on wordpress, I stumbled across a post which I won't forget in a hurry. Alexis wrote with such open honesty about her brave battle with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and…
An opportunity to volunteer in a hospital abroad For most medical students, the highlight of med school is their medical elective. An opportunity to plan a project anywhere in the world doing anything they want to (so long as it benefits their medical training.) Struck by the travel bug aged 17…
[su_heading size="22"]How to come back to earth WITHOUT a bump![/su_heading] [su_note note_color="#e00d53" text_color="#f7fffe"]"Life is a book and those who do not travel, never get past the first chapter!"[/su_note] Have you ever experienced the post-travel blues? That sense of loss, apathy and sadness that strikes you when you return from a big…
I thought I was prepared for altitude sickness, I’d read all the info, got the right medications, got fitter in the gym and planned my trip to allow some time for acclimatisation. After arriving in Quito at 2800m I felt fine. A couple I met over lunch told me I’d notice feeling short of breath soon but at that point I felt pretty smug that I so far was not affected! I hoped I was in the lucky few that barely noticed the altitude. A few hours later that all changed!
Sometimes I refer to myself as a 'hopeless girl' as I STILL haven't mastered the art of nail varnish OR walking in heels and my hair is pretty much always just straight or in a pony tail (I've now added curly to my repertoire!) That said, I still often get described…